HR 2855 — Protecting Medical Research Funding Act
Congress 119 · introduced 2025-04-10
Latest action: — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Sponsors (1)
- Kennedy, Timothy M. (D, NY-26) — sponsor · 2025-04-10
Action timeline (3)
- · H11100 — Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
- · Intro-H — Introduced in House
- · 1000 — Introduced in House
Text versions (1)
- Introduced in House · 2025-04-10 — open
Bill text (extracted)
Amendments
Congressional Research Service briefs (1)
CRS reports that cite this bill in their relatedMaterials — what Congress was reading on the topic. Click any report for its summary, formats, and bill-citation walk.
- NIH Grants Policy Under the Second Trump Administration
IF13131· Resources · 2026-04-17Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—the nation’s leading health and medical research agency—changed gran
Connected on the graph
3 typed relationships in the influence graph — 1 inbound, 2 outbound, grouped by type.
cited in report (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | → | IF13131 | — | crs-report-relatedMaterials |
referred to committee (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-03 | → | House Energy and Commerce Committee | — | congress-committee |
sponsor of bill (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-10 | ← | Kennedy, Timothy M. | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kennedy, Timothy M. (D, house NY-26) | sponsor | 4 | — | 9 |
Who's influencing them
Orgs ranked by combined money flow on this bill: LDA filings citing the bill + individual contributions in cycle 2026from donors whose employer matches the org name (Schedule A) to any principal committee in the "who matters" list above.
| # | Org | LDA filings | LDA spend | Donor employees | Employee donations | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not employed | 0 | $0 | 114 | $187,375 | $187,375 |
| 2 | self employed | 0 | $0 | 60 | $99,812 | $99,812 |
| 3 | great lakes anesthesiology | 0 | $0 | 4 | $21,950 | $21,950 |
| 4 | apollo global management | 0 | $0 | 4 | $17,500 | $17,500 |
| 5 | none | 0 | $0 | 4 | $13,500 | $13,500 |
| 6 | joy real estate, llc | 0 | $0 | 1 | $12,000 | $12,000 |
| 7 | post acute partners | 0 | $0 | 2 | $12,000 | $12,000 |
| 8 | hodgson russ, llp | 0 | $0 | 3 | $11,315 | $11,315 |
| 9 | ciminelli real estate corporation | 0 | $0 | 1 | $8,500 | $8,500 |
| 10 | larkin development group | 0 | $0 | 2 | $7,517 | $7,517 |
| 11 | lu engineers | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,277 | $7,277 |
| 12 | medical answering services | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,175 | $7,175 |
| 13 | dolce panepinto | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,122 | $7,122 |
| 14 | savarino companies | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,003 | $7,003 |
| 15 | cobey | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 16 | 132 dingens st, llc | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 17 | bloomberg lp | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 18 | gfp real estate | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 19 | golden lioness | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 20 | libra group | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 21 | d & h paving, llc | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 22 | aspire of wny | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 23 | abrams fensterman, llp | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 24 | fetner properties | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
| 25 | dennis & co. auto group | 0 | $0 | 1 | $7,000 | $7,000 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
1 predicted yes (0%) · 280 predicted no (52%) · 262 unknown (48%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 1 yes / 0 no / 262 unknown · I: 0 yes / 3 no
1 high-confidence positions (voted + sponsor + cosponsor)
- Kennedy, Timothy M. (D · house · NY-26) · sponsor
Timeline
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; the inline strip under the row shows the counterpart's own context (a bill's latest action, a hearing's chamber + date, a filing's form type + filed date, a clip's source + excerpt) so the timeline reads like a Wikipedia citation rail.
- 2026-05-23 · Cited in GAO report IF13131 · crs-report-relatedMaterials
- 2025-04-10 · sponsored by Kennedy, Timothy M. (sponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-01-03 · was referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee · congress-committee